February 2012
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“The fact that style has a history makes sense given the drive for the familiar...”
– Adele In The Goldilocks Zone : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
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“Well, it’s just like a fire, the red incandescence, and there’s some...”
– A.P.C. designer Jean Touitou on whether or not rock is dead.
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Holding On For Tomorrow
guardianmusic:
Alex James has revealed - in another ill-considered column for The Sun - that Blur will play five songs when they pick up their Outstanding Contribution To Music gong at Tuesday night’s Brits. Which leaves Blur fans - quite literally! - holding on for tomorrow. (Any excuse to post one of their best and most under-rated songs, really.) CS
Still my favorite Blur song, I think.
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“As a child I feared the day the world would be taken over by robots; these days...”
– Crash course in how to write an interesting lede for an album review by Lindsay Zoladz. (via seanfennessey)
It’s true. Taking notes.
(via markrichardson)
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“I feel like women have the feeling that there is only a finite amount of success...”
– Tennis’s Alaina Moore on the New Album, Working With Her Husband, and the Backlash to the Band — Vulture
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Bonnie Bear on artistic purity with Spin
Maybe what we're actually talking about, though, is purity. You've mentioned before that that's perhaps what made For Emma so magnetic, that that's why you're so protective of it, and that that's why it's been so upsetting to be thrust into a the position where you're trying to communicate things that can't be said in a song. But can Bon Iver remain pure?
I wonder about that. I wonder if there will be another record, if there can be. One of things that I feel happy about is that I have it within me to make the call, to say the show goes on or the show doesn't go on. I won't let Bon Iver fail itself. So far, it's succeeded, so if we never make another record, it's okay with me. I'm still going to do something else. But I'm a romantic, I care about what it is. I care that it came from a pure place.
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“I’ve been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone...”
– James Blake Talks Why American Dubstep Is Not Really For ‘Frat-Boys’ In Advance Of Tibet House Concert
Glad he’s come around on that.
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Hear Perfume Genius' 'Put Your Back N 2 It' |... →
You should probably listen to this. And by probably, I mean definitely.
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“If we’re imagining—pure speculation here, folks—that the awards are not doled...”
– SF-J on Grammy politics.
EDIT: one more. “Woman-beating rage-broccoli Chris Brown lip-synced his single ‘Turn Up The Music’ (without being threatened by Sir Elton John) and danced roughly as well as a third-rate Chicago footwork dancer. He ended his performance by back-flipping off the stage,...
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Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
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“French culture and rock do not go well together. It’s like English wine.”
– Electronic pop vets Air talk to us about why they could never be proper rockers in our latest 5-10-15-20 interview. (via pitchfork)
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“I had a new girlfriend, and we listened to Is This It all the time. Our love...”
– Nicolas Gaudin, Air
5-10-15-20: Air | Features | Pitchfork
This is a great interview. Also reminds me of how bummed I am that I missed out on seeing Coeur de Pirate on Friday, could have used a shot of nostalgia for sitting in that apartment in Angers at 3am.
January 2012
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“It’s instructive to picture what this guy would actually look like IRL, some...”
– Rob Harvilla imagines the guy Lana Del Rey is singing about all through her album Born to Die. This part of his review made laugh out loud. I really admire the way Rob integrates glib, humorous bits into his reviews in ways that actually advance his ideas about the record. That’s not always easy to...
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“You can’t explain why you like something. The bigger question for me was always...”
– Stew, on how people like music or don’t like music because they think other people think they should like or dislike it. (via nprfreshair)
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“The conversation surrounding Lana Del Rey has underscored some seriously...”
– Lana Del Rey: Born to Die | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
At this point, I don’t really care about whether or not Lana Del Rey is ‘authentic.’ While she has obviously been unfairly criticized because she is a woman, we need to focus on the unhealthy vision of femininity that she...
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“ALL WATERS: Why are straight women always walking with their hands in the back...”
– Matador Records | Perfume Genius Biography
Mike Hadreas’ song-by-song explanations of each song on the new Perfume Genius record are amazing and incredibly thoughtful. This may be the best bio I have ever encountered, actually.
(via perpetua)
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“To be fair, Klosterman did end his piece by saying that he was rooting for...”
– On tUnE-YarDs, Chuck Klosterman and the End of the High Fidelity Era of Music Criticism | The Measure
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“Only Paris seemed (slightly) resistant to Helvetica’s charms. One can find it...”
– How Helvetica Conquered The World With Its Cool, Comforting Logic | Co.Design
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"I get the sense that asexuality is part of her... →
marathonpacks:
About one of the most resolutely sexual albums of the last few years. A shame that Grantland’s huge audience is exposed to this level of crude misrepresentation masquerading as coy/self-effacing insight.
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jswithlove replied to your post: In order to shame myself into cleaning out my wallet more often, here is every movie ticket stub I found in it.
this isnt so bad, but oh god, paper heart was awful!
pretentiousmixtapes replied to your post: In order to shame myself into cleaning out my wallet more often, here is every movie ticket stub I found in it.
I appreciate the number of times you saw Scott...
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In order to shame myself into cleaning out my...
Star Trek, 5/24/09
The Brothers Bloom, 6/4/09
Paper Heart, 8/7/09
Funny People, 8/9/09
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 8/18/09
In The Loop, 9/3/09
Taking Woodstock, 9/4/09
Whip It, 9/26/09
The Proposal, 10/2/09
Bright Star, 10/17/09
An Education, 11/27/09
Fantastic Mr. Fox, 11/28/09
New Moon, 12/9/09
Up In The Air, 12/27/09
A Single Man, 12/29/09
Youth In Revolt, 1/9/10
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